Sisnando: A white finger in bimba's black capoeira

Sisnando: A white finger in bimba's black capoeira

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CRATEUS-CE - Summer 2013

"The good are born ready". Don't wait for me to harvest. I will always sow. ”Ernesto Che Guevara

Arrieeeegua macho, you do not know who is Sisnando from Ceará in capoeira and his great heritage? Devil that !!!

Sisnando. "THIS IS THE FUNDAMENTAL STONE OF THE REGIONAL CAPOEIRA". (from the master Decânio) - If this Cearense - José Sisnando de Lima, from Crato-CE, had not crossed the road to Bimba that afternoon in Carvoeira, with his extraordinary strength as a fighter, he would be very difficult for regional capoeira to get to where it ended up. He was decisive in this process of organization, systematization of teaching and projection of regional capoeira in Bahia. He was the glove, Bimba the hand, he the key, Bimba the door, Sisnando the river, Manoel Bimba the ocean, this Cearense was the compass and the master was the boat, a symbiosis, a symmetry for this art-combat. Bimba sees Sisnando as a great opportunity to extend his regional struggle. The ascent of the mountain is also the descent, Nietzsche said.

Manoel Bimba dos Reis Machado created regional wrestling, fought, beaten and won. He was still in charge, the last word was from the grand master. José Sisnando de Lima, who left his hometown near Bahia, with a dream of becoming a doctor and had joined with his "maturão" an interest in combat, already trained in jiu-jitsu, Greco-Roman wrestling and others , but wanted to learn capoeira. "I have always visited the capoeira rounds on weekends in Salvador". Living in a boarding school, he regretted not having found the "real master" of capoeira. Until the day she heard from a cook: "Go learn this struggle with the black man named Bimba (it was not yet the great Master Bimba), there in the old mill of Brotas, Doctor." Bimba a man of almost 2 meters tall whom the Doctor respected from the start, then Bimba looks him up and down and makes this famous statement: "capoeira is something for blacks and not for whites". Bimba, then proposed a test for the little man of Ceará: "if you can hold three minutes in the collar of force, I will teach you". Being very strong and having lived other struggles, he passed the test of the challenge and started a great friendship and an inseparable path towards the solidification of the regional capoeira of Bahia.

Sisnando was Bimba's first university student. For the wise Mestre Decânio, it all started when he arrived in Bahia. The inhabitants of Ceará, seeing the difficulty of recognition, the prejudices and the devaluation by Bahian society vis-à-vis capoeira, looked for ways and fought hard to defend this new struggle created by Mestre Bimba. Sisnando and other students began to bring Bimba closer to university students, allowing for greater social acceptance and better organization of capoeira. The "arretado" Cearense opens the academic world and the society of Bahia meu rei to Mestre Bimba and his capoeira created at the end of the 1920s. "Mestre Bimba begins to be invited by good families to teach capoeira to their young boys. , probably as self-defense ”(Decânio).

”There are comments saying that in the 1930s Sisnando participated in a curious story: Defender of the government of Juracy Magalhães, then federal speaker of the Estado Novo da Bahia and also of Ceará, heard that a group of journalism students would write against the government. Sisnando then told the students that when they were done writing he would read the news and if he didn't like it he would tear it up. No sooner said than done. The students were angry, chased him and didn't get along. A newspaper at the time reported that a medical student was confronting several journalism students in defense of the government. "Soon after, Juracy befriended Sisnando, who became a member of his personal guard." (ABIB) - Sisnando begins to have political influences in Bahia and takes the opportunity to present Bimba and regional capoeira to Governor Juracy and President Getúlio Vargas, and it is at this time that he obtains the authorization for the capoeira has legal permission to be practiced and removed from the penal code. Bimba later had the first official physical education academy to teach his “Regional Capoeira Method” in Brazil.

Over time, Sisnando and other students of the master began to gain space in the Bahian capoeira scene. The skill of this great man from Crato, Ceará, the North-East and the Brazilian José Sisnando de Lima, was a historic moment that would trigger profound changes in the world of capoeira until today. With tremendous access by students in various sectors of society such as the press and the state, capoeira is starting to gain acceptance. Bimba began to travel with his group of students, spreading Capoeira Regional throughout the country. With this union of forces, Capoeira Regional began to be accepted by some social groups and gained prestige in Bahia. No one can survive without a utopia, underlined Emil Michel Cioran. (1937).

Sisnando is a man worthy of the homage of all the capoeiristas of Brazil and the world for his work and his invaluable contribution to the pharaonic training of regional capoeira, in the methodological systematization of the teaching of regional wrestling, as well as for the courage to free Capoeiragem from marginalization, diasporas and social rejection, and also, to place it in the bosom of Brazilian society in Bahia. Sisnando and Bimba already knew very well the value that capoeira had, it is a pity that many capoeirists, Ceará and Brazilians do not know the value that Sisnando has in capoeira, they do not know or do not value this noble disciple of Bimba: the man who brought light and wind from Ceará to the oil palm of Bahia.

Dr José Sisnando Lima, who then graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in Salvador, becoming a specialist in neuropsychiatry, practiced in Santa Bárbara and then moved to southern Ceará and northern Minas. He returned to Bahia and again in Santa Bárbara distinguished himself by investments in agriculture, which guaranteed him the presidency of the Rural Union of Feira de Santana. He was also a Doctor in the Department of Agriculture, State Supervisor of Merenda Escolar and Professor of Biology. Elected municipal councilor in 1958, he became Speaker of the Chamber and in this condition replaced the then mayor Arnold Silva for four months, in 1962.

This capoeirista from Ceará is credited with the courage of a tireless fighter in search of his dreams. And courage is the first of human qualities. A man with a brave heart will not admit counterfeiting. He was a loyal guy, honest and true to his words, steady in his footsteps and worthy in his actions. Sisnando was a "cabra da peste" man, with attitudes, determination and perseverance in the pursuit of his goals, which is why he got where he is.

We will congratulate you, respect you and congratulate you on your great contribution to capoeira and place you in your true place of honor in capoeira.

"The value of things is not how long they last, but how intensely they happen. That's why there are unforgettable moments, unexplainable things and incomparable people." Fernando Pessoa.

"The fundamental difference between the common man and the warrior is that the warrior faces everything as a challenge, while the common man sees everything as a blessing or a curse." Carlos castaneda

Sarava ...

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Capoeira Foundation Axé Dendê-CE-Brasil.

Sociedade Brasileira De Capoeira Inclusiva.

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To find out more about Sisnando: https://www.cristovamaguiar.com.br/2020/10/historias-da-princesa_18.html

Sisnando Capoeira

Dr. José Sisnando Lima

Mestre Bimba and Dr. José Sisnando Lima

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